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TIL I learned the moon looks upside down in Australia

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arG9 TIL GoldenEye 007 was developed by an inexperienced team; eight of its ten developers had never previously worked on video games
Rkm6 TIL the Ancient Romans would flood the Colosseum to re-enact sea battles
0bLA TIL despite having DNA evidence of the suspect, German police could not prosecute a $6.8M jewel heist because the DNA belonged to identical twins, and there was no evidence to prove which one of them was the culprit.
1bo7 TIL Patrick Stewart, was initially considered for the role of Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Roddenberry did not want to cast Stewart as Picard, since he had envisioned an actor who was “masculine, virile, and had a lot of hair”. Roddenberry’s first choice was Stephen Macht
J1LVj TIL that a popular Halloween song, "Thriller," was written by an Englishman named Rod Temperton. He wrote a number of top hits for other recording artists, won a Grammy award and was nominated for an Oscar. His nickname was "The Invisible Man" because he chose to stay out of the limelight.